In which you will learn:

• The slightly muddy origin of the word 'etiquette'
• What was considered extremely rude to the Victorians
• Some weird and wonderful Ancient Roman banquet manners

In which you will learn:

• What Friends was originally meant to be about (psst: it was maybe not so much just about being friends...)
• Which superstar joined the cast for FREE
• How very little Jazz cares about Friends. ... the TV show... not her own friends...

In which you will learn

• What essential skill you should really possess before tying yourself to a bunch of helium balloons
• What NOT to do immediately after consuming gasoline
• About a thing called the 'Male Idiot Theory'

In which you will learn

• Not a lot really...

In which you will learn:

• How Pliny managed to get stuff wrong about made-up creatures
• How many races of monstrous quasi-humans Pliny wrote about
• Whether or not Pliny actually predicted the existence of Australia (and its deadly inhabitants)

In which you will learn:

• Which marketing campaigns got movies in a LOT of trouble in the USA
• A whole bunch of good good tag lines from the last year
• ***** - 'This podcast is a must-listen!' - David Manning

In which you will learn:

• Which scene you will be watching a whole lot more closely from now on
• Some stuff about Elvish
• A bunch of numbers and why they're important to the Lord of the Rings movies

Also - it's our ONE YEAR PODVERSARY!! Happy birthday us! And thanks for sticking around! Hopefully it's because we entertain you. At a pinch, we'll also accept you like learning weird trivial things. Either way, you're welcome back any time!

In which you will learn:

• Which Tudor King was the offspring of Henry VII
• Hopefully more than Jazz ended up learning
• But also probably a hell of a lot more than you ever expected to learn about Henry VII

** Please note **

We had some unfortunate sound issues again guys. It's currently too hot in London to use our usual set up so Jazz has been doing the best she can to make things listenable for you. We'll be back up to our normal quality as soon as the weather permits. Apologies in the meantime.

In which you will learn:

• How to pick a good name for your wizard rock band
• What Hogwarts: A History forgot to mention
• Which wizards are the purest of them all

In which you will learn:

• About the video game crash of 1983 that changed the course of video game history
• Which Nintendo franchise is the most popular video game franchise of all time
• How many Pokemon movies there have been